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Edward Everett Gann, an unassuming man, long led a quiet life in Washington. He practiced law, he made some money. He never troubled his head about Society and Society never troubled its head about him. Edward Everett Gann was a happy...
...married Dolly Curtis, a strapping, titian-haired lady whose Brother Charles was Senator from Kansas. But that fact did not affect the smooth and comfortable routine of his life. When Mrs. Curtis died five years ago, the Senator as a widower went to live in the vine-clad Gann home in Cleveland Park, informal Washington suburb. When his brother-in-law sought the presidential nomination last year at the Kansas City Convention, Mr. Gann journeyed out and took charge of the Curtis headquarters. It was pretty much a family affair and all very jolly...
...until his brother-in-law was nominated and elected Vice President of the U. S. did Mr. Gann's troubles begin. First he was brought in from the cozy Cleveland Park home to take up residence, with the Vice President and Mrs. Gann, in a twelve-room suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Then he found himself being led off to great formal dinners with people he didn't know and who obviously didn't know him. A round-faced, bespectacled man, shorter than the large Mrs. Gann, the Vice President's brother-in-law sidled into...
Also, of course, Mr. & Mrs. Coolidge left the White House behind. On inauguration eve they had Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Senator Curtis and Mrs. E. E. Gann, the Senator's sister, to dinner and showed the new President and first lady their new quarters...
...that Mrs. George Higgins Moses (nee Florence Abby Gordon), the lively, pince-nezzed wife of the bellicose Senator from New Hampshire, had been chosen to head the luncheon club. "Mr. Moses is President pro tern, of the Senate, you see, so that made it most appropriate . . .," etc. etc. Mrs. Gann was elected a Senate Lady only on a nonvoting, honorary basis...